Thursday, 4 July 2013

Submission Works Honest User Review



It’s a little hard to believe that it has already been 6 months since I first signed up at Submission Works. I guess the old phrase about time flying when you are having fun really is true. As you can probably guess by that last sentence, I am still more than just a little pleased with the results I am having using the SW program. Any of you who are still having doubts about how effective Submission Works is in promoting your programs should really keep reading to see just how much can be accomplished in just a few short months.

In my previous update I spoke about how the fortunes for my Wordpress site had changed by hiring someone to help me with search engine optimization (SEO). That site has continued to go from strength to strength, with sales close to doubling in the months that have passed since my last report. The SEO tweaks made to the site have helped deliver more US based customers, which had been severely lacking beforehand.

The other lesson I learned back then was about knowing what my limitations were. I used the same microgig site where I found the SEO person to find a writer to help me put some better articles together. It took a few attempts, but I finally found one that could deliver exactly what I wanted in a very quick turnaround time. I believe that the quality content provided on that site, combined with the targeted traffic delivered by Submission Works, has led to my sales conversion rate taking a dramatic turn for the better.

The lessons learned at the Wordpress site have also helped me improve my results with the six other sites that I am promoting via the Submission Works software. I now pay real attention to the peaks and valleys in my conversion rates on each, as those tend to show when the landing page or wording used in each might need to be changed out. By keeping on top of that, I am seeing way more peaks than valleys, which allows me to improve my ROI at a steady rate. The Submission Works system is a definite winner in its own right, but with a little careful study you can make it even more powerful.

My earning levels are now at the point where this is actually shaping up to be a full-time income with part-time effort. I am also convinced that Submission Works is a program that will work over the long haul, but I am still not quite ready to bid a less than fond farewell to my boss just yet. The goal has always been to earn my entire living from home and I can now see that light shining rather brightly at the end of the tunnel. I am totally sure that I would still be in the dark were it not for the help provided by Submission Works.


Danica Ramondo


Friday, 7 December 2012

Submission Works Review *2 Month Follow Up*



As promised, here is a follow-up on my previous post about the success I have been having with Submission Works. I have now just completed my second month with the program and have to say that I continue to be blown away with the results. I have made a few changes, though, which is what I will outline here. The changes I have made have nothing to do with the Submission Works program, but rather the websites that I am promoting. Last month I spoke about the Wordpress page that I had created to test the Submission Works program, and it’s that particular page I will be focusing on here.

I had used that site to market a program that I thought was failing, only to see it brought to life again via Submission Works. The success of that page prompted me to fill up all seven slots in the member’s section of SW, just to see how my other programs would compare against the one I had used in month one. The results of those were actually better than what I received from my Wordpress page, prompting me to think that perhaps I was still doing something wrong over there.

Once again I decided to dig a little deeper to see why that site wasn’t performing as well as the others. Let me just remind you, though, the Wordpress site was still making more than enough to cover the cost of my SWsubscription, but it was still under performing when compared to the other sites that I was marketing. Each of those other programs was receiving a massive boost in traffic, but the conversion rates were a good deal higher than at my Wordpress site, which I actually believed to be the best of the programs I was promoting.

The number of new paying members at my other sites took a dramatic upturn after plugging the URL’s into Submission Works, but the conversion ratio at the Wordpress site fell far behind. I decided to dig deeper and found that the number of unique US-based I.P. addresses at the other sites was a good deal higher than at my first site. I could only assume that there had to be something in the wording or layout of the Wordpress site that was somehow causing the software at SW to send more overseas visitors than US.

I decided to take a little of the money that I had made from my SW earnings, and hired an SEO guy and a writer to work on my Wordpress site. I had the new information up and running in a little over a week, and to say that the turnaround was dramatic would be an understatement. The number of US visitors increased almost immediately, as did my conversion ratio. This taught me the lesson that my writing and SEO skills were perhaps not as sharp as they should be, and that my time should be better spent doing the things in my home business that I know I do well. Thanks to Submission Works, I am now making enough money every month to start outsourcing those tasks that do not fit my skill set.

Danica Ramondo

Wednesday, 31 October 2012

Submission Works One Month Review



I have been making a living at home for long enough to be skeptical of just about every piece of email I receive that hails one system or another as the greatest thing to ever hit the internet. I have fallen for more than my fair share of those over the years, to the point where I can now separate the outright scams from the few that seem to be legitimate. The sad part of my learning that was that it cost me a bit of money over the years, but that is how these guys work. They will put up websites with fancy cars, glorious mansions, and hot women plastered all over the place. It’s an alluring visual to be sure, but it amounts to nothing more than smoke and mirrors that is nothing more than an effort to sell snake oil.

I recently received an e-mail that I have to admit intrigued me from the start. The link took me to a sales page that was surprisingly free from the types of images I mentioned above. It was a long read that detailed how one man had created a piece of software that could get your links to the top of all the major search engines. Reading through the sales pitch, I became surprised that no red flags were popping up as I read. The first sign of those is usually enough to send me running back to the programs that I know work well and which have made me a decent living working from home.

The name of the program was Submission Works, and the basic premise of the software was that it would take your links and spread them over thousands of similar type websites, thus creating a huge number of links back to your site. Those of you who know anything about how search engines work are well aware that these types of links are what sites like Google gobble up and love. There was no real fancy sales pitch included here, or confusing terminology that is intended to sound great, but only really ends up confusing the reader. What really nailed it for me was the inclusion of an impromptu FAQ section on the sales page, which even included how to cancel your subscription if you weren’t happy. It’s amazing how many sites of this sort make it virtually impossible for you to cancel once you have signed up.

I decided that the $59 per month subscription was more than fair, especially since it was made perfectly clear how easy it was to cancel if I was unhappy with the service. I happily dropped down the money and immediately decided to test a couple of the claims right off the bat. One of the claims that caught my eye as I read through the sales page was that certain affiliate links would be denied to avoid over saturation. I decided to test that theory by adding a link to a program that I had stopped promoting for the very fact that it was now everywhere to be seen on the internet. Sure enough, I ran the link through the saturation checker and found that it would be a waste of my time to submit it: score one for Submission Works.

Once you login to the member’s area of Submission Works, you are prompted to enter as many as seven different links that you want to promote. I thought the best way to test out the software was to test just a single link that I had been having very little success with. I had joined a few different affiliate programs that were all particularly hot at the present time. I had created a Wordpress page and set about marketing my links. Sales were sluggish to say the least, prompting me to believe that I had made a bit of an error in judgment by creating this particular site.

Before I get to the results of my test, let me just say that this is a program that anyone can use, regardless of experience in internet marketing. It really is as simple as copying and pasting your link into the member’s area and sitting back while the software goes to work. And trust me, it works quickly if my results are anything to go by. The first thing that I noticed in the first week of using Submission Works was a fairly dramatic spike in the number of visitors to the site that I was promoting. Those new visitors resulted in a couple of $50 sales. That may not seem like anything to write home about, but you have to understand that this was a site that I believed to be completely dead; so much so that I was actually thinking of pulling it altogether and simply giving up promoting this particular program at all.

In the next two weeks, the number of visitors to my website continued to increase, as did the sales. I very quickly surpassed the amount that I had paid to subscribe in the first place, which meant that anything after that was pure profit. I use a number of tools to see where my traffic as coming from, as well as who is visiting. I noticed that I had an increasing number of repeat visitors during that time, which told me a couple of things. They either liked what they saw and wanted more or liked it, but weren’t able to get what they wanted. I soon thereafter submitted one new link from a new program I had just joined and saw my sales numbers spike again. Many of the new sales were from those latest links I had just submitted into my Submission Works back office. As you might have already guessed, I have decided to continue into a second month while adding more of my links into the mix. I will update everyone as to how everything goes.

Danica Ramondo